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Old 01-25-2005, 10:33 AM   #1
joelescoulie
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Load vmware module at boot


I am trying out vmware and after each reboot of the host machine I need to manually load two vmware modules, vmmon.o and vmnet.o with insmod. How can I get these to load automatically at boot time?

I also cannot run vmware at full screen without enabling the DGA extension in xorg. Any advise in that would also be great. Thanks.
 
Old 01-25-2005, 11:23 AM   #2
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Re: Load vmware module at boot

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I am trying out vmware and after each reboot of the host machine I need to manually load two vmware modules, vmmon.o and vmnet.o with insmod. How can I get these to load automatically at boot time?

Add a couple lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

/sbin/modprobe vmmon
/sbin/modprobe vmnet
 
Old 01-25-2005, 03:07 PM   #3
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This is what I have at the top of my xorg.conf file (inside section "Module") to fix the problem with VMWare. I just noticed that is says "xfree86-dga" instead of "xorg-dga". Hmm. Well, I am using VMWare under XOrg and I can go fullscreen without any problems.

# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
#Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
Option "xfree86-dga" # added this on 04/04/04 to faciliate VMWare
EndSubSection

Last edited by Tino27; 01-25-2005 at 03:08 PM.
 
Old 01-26-2005, 09:52 AM   #4
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Thanks for that fix. BTW I had to change 'modprobe' to 'insmod.' modprobe lead to fatal errors.

And full screen on vmware works with that commented out.

Thanks again guys.
 
  


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